Variation is function: Are single cell differences functionally important?: Testing the hypothesis that single cell variation is required for aggregate function

BioEssays

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 172-180

  Dueck, Hannah ^a   Eberwine, James ^a,b   Kim, Junhyong ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Bet hedging; Evolution of variation; Fractional response; Functional variation; Single cell transcriptome; Single cell variation

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; CHEMICAL BINDING; FUNCTIONAL STATUS; ANIMAL; GENETIC VARIATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY;

TRANSCRIPTOME;

ANIMALS; GENETIC VARIATION; HUMANS; TRANSCRIPTOME;

EID: 84961385886     PISSN: 02659247     EISSN: 15211878     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/bies.201500124     Document Type: Article

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